The new science fiction TV series "Dark Matter," about six people who wake up on a spaceship with no memories, is packed full of mystery. The show's co-creator Joe Mallozzi talked with Space.com about what viewers can expect from the first season.

WASP-33b, an exoplanet 4 1/2 times more massive that Jupiter, has a layer in its atmosphere that absorbs ultraviolet radiation, preventing UV from reaching the surface. Earth has a similar stratospheric UV filter.

The planet Uranus will slip behind the moon today (June 11) in a celestial event known as an occultation, and you have a chance to watch it live at Slooh.com courtesy of the Slooh Community Observatory.

Three space station crew members have returned home to the Earth after spending nearly 200 days off the planet. American Terry Virts, Russian Anton Shkaplerov and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti are back on Earth.

Registration is now open for a November conference that aims to help bring space technologies down to Earth. The first-ever SpaceCom (short for the Space Commerce Conference and Exposition), which runs from Nov. 17 through Nov. 19 in Houston.

Russian flight controllers quickly fixed the issue, which posed no threat to the station's six crewmembers and it will not affect plans to return three of these spaceflyers to Earth early Thursday (June 11), NASA officials said.

LightSail, whose mission is funded by members and supporters of the Planetary Society, overcame two separate glitches before unfurling its solar sail on Sunday. A photo captured by the cubesat confirmed the successful deployment.

Are they ice? Salt? Something exotic? NASA is still baffled by the origin of the bright spots observed by the Dawn Mission but the latest mapping orbit of 2,700 miles (4, 400 km) above the surface reveals the best detail yet.

Average distances between galaxies are relatively much smaller than average distances between individual stars. Not so galaxy NGC 6503, which is on its own in a region known as the Local Void, about 17 million light years away from Earth.

European company Airbus has unveiled its plan to develop rocket engines that fly back to a runway and a reusable "space tug" upper stage — reusability concepts that mirror those being developed by SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.

The 100-foot-wide parachute unfurled well and apparently inflated fully, or nearly fully, Monday before being ruptured by the fast-rushing air during the second flight test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project.

Staying clean in space is a challenge, something that Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti knows well after spending several months on the International Space Station In two recent videos, Cristoforetti showed off the station's shower, as well as one

On May 27th, 2015, the ISS Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) was relocated to make way for a space berthing port for U.S. cargo spacecraft. Cameras aboard the International Space Station captured an amazing view of the move.